Author: Daniel Seiver

  • Howard Ozer, April 6, 2018

    ByDaniel Seiver

    From https://today.uic.edu/deaths-howard-ozer Howard Ozer, former cancer researcher, clinician, professor and leader at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), died April 6. He was 71. Ozer, who specialized in treatment of blood cancers, is internationally known for his work on biological therapies for cancer. He made significant developments in research related to blood cell growth factors and cytokines. He also conducted clinical trials in leukemia and lymphoma. Ozer’s leadership role at UIC began in 2010, when he joined…

  • Class Notes: Mar/Apr 2018

    ByDaniel Seiver

    How do we top the unalloyed joy of a magnificent upset of the Cantabs in 2016? How about a brilliant 2017 season (9-1) capped with an Ivy Championship, and a delightful drubbing of our hapless nemesis from up north? Your scribe’s white hankie waved with many others in the Bowl, as our long trek through the desert of defeat faded into “mem’ry’s haze.” The Bulldogs are BACK! Here now the news: David Lawrence, via our…

  • Jul/Aug 2017

    ByDaniel Seiver

    From David H. Johnson: “My wife and I recently visited Mary Starnes, widow of former Dramat director Leland Starnes. Mary lives in Salisbury, Maryland. Lee was teaching and directing at Salisbury State College (now University) when he passed away in 1980. Mary’s as bright, pretty, and perceptive as she ever was. She remembers all the Dramat performances (and performers) of the late ’50s to the late ’60s. She has very precise memories of taking MFA…

  • May/June 2017

    ByDaniel Seiver

    From Skip Hobbs: “David Friend, a pioneer in digital data cloud storage, has been a collector of fine mineral specimens all his life. He recently funded the $4 million renovation of the Yale Peabody Museum mineral collection and exhibition hall, and donated some of his unusually large and magnificent specimens. (Pictures)  On October 21 the Peabody Museum held a gala opening of the David Friend Mineral Gallery, complete with dinner in the dinosaur hall. On…

  • Mar/April 2017

    ByDaniel Seiver

    On a surprisingly mild late November afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a miracle happened. After a decade of disappointment, Yale’s underdog Bulldogs played superbly on both sides of the ball and upset a potent Cantab team, 21–14. Your scribe enjoyed every minute of it, and will continue to savor sweet victory, undimmed “through mem’ry’s haze.” The white handkerchief came out, and vigorous waving shook off the years of dust and dreams denied. It even dabbed a…

  • Sep/Oct 2016

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Bob Bucholz passed away at home in Dallas, Texas, on May 20. This memorial was submitted by Marybeth Ezaki ’73 (Marybeth.ezaki@gmail.com), Richard Tedlow, Terry Light, Phil Gans(pgans@pgans.com), Derry Allen, and Wil Lam: “Bob was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. At Yale, Bob was summa cum laude with a BA in economics. He graduated from Yale Medical School in 1973, and completed a surgical internship at the University of Colorado, then returned to Yale for his…

  • May/Jun 2016

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Your scribe sought out Tom Orum, who was in Econ 10 (Saybrook CDG) with me in the Fall of 1965. Here is his first-ever report for this column: “I got a master’s in agronomy and plant genetics from the University of Arizona and worked for 25 years as a research specialist in the plant pathology department at the University of Arizona. My wife, Nancy Ferguson, and I both retired in 2000 to volunteer with the…

  • Mar/Apr 2016

    ByDaniel Seiver

    The mailbag has gotten thin, and is now empty. I would especially like to get a word or two from classmates who have not appeared in this column in recent years. Inquiring minds want to know! News from Dues: Brian Ibsen “has retired from the Aga Khan University, but I remain active in fund-raising for Africa and for historic preservation in Chicago. Clementine has been very active at Second City, so we are seeing a…

  • Jan/Feb 2016

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Steve Rose (1969rosesa47@outlook.com) writes to us for the first time: “The booming of autumn wind in the pines outside my window sounds like the audible rushing of time and prompts me to send in my first class note. Following graduation, I sailed with the navy for 30 years as …

  • Nov/Dec 2015

    ByDaniel Seiver

    Greg Montes writes: “I learned earlier this year that Richard Griest died on December 21, 2011, at Pleasant Hill, California. I often ate lunch and dinner with Richard in Morse College in 1966–69 and we lived on the same floor of Morse Tower in 1967–68. We had many discussions about politics, history, Yale, and other subjects. I and others who knew Richard over the years found him to be very intelligent and good-humored. My parents enjoyed meeting and talking with Richard when he stayed overnight with them in Omaha, Nebraska, while driving from Yale to San Diego in June 1969.